Coal firm settles suit with reclamation pledge

by JEFF LESTER • EDITOR
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The Looney Ridge mine sits at the base of Black Mountain near Appalachia. When the environmental groups announced they would sue in May 2022, they said there had been no mining there since spring 2013. FILE PHOTO


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